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Category Archives: deep time
The slow death of a sedimentary basin
Time catches up with us all – even rocks…
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Pangaea Day, geology-style
A brief geographic trip into the late Triassic.
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Uniformitarianism in action (sort of)
Most of you correctly identified the sedimentary structures in Friday’s mystery photo: two sets of ripple marks can be seen on the left, and a lower bed on the right has what look like dessication/mud cracks, formed by the drying … Continue reading
Do we need a new geological epoch?
Anthropocene! Naming a new geological time period after ourselves certainly has a nice dramatic ring to it, even if it smacks of the hubris that got us into our current climatic mess in the first place. But can our species, … Continue reading
19th century geologists slandered again
Are folks at the University of Bristol intentionally trying to annoy me? In the very same week that I write about the abundant signs of old age in the rock record, they put out a press release which states: By … Continue reading
Nice plan for content warnings on Mastodon and the Fediverse. Now you need a Mastodon/Fediverse button on this blog.